Sitting down to breakfast, I turned to the letters page and caught sight of Ben Jennings’ powerful cartoon (24 November). I caught my breath and then wept. Reading in recent days about parents skipping meals as a way of eking out meagre household income has been sobering, but had none of the immediacy of Jennings’ image and the desperate impact of the child’s words: “Dad – when will I be grown up enough to not need dinner any more, like you?”
Clare Smedley
Rudyard, Staffordshire
• Your article (Pedestrian ‘jungle’: the row in Paris over rented e-scooters, 23 November) says the UK “bans personal e-scooters from public streets”. As a denizen of Oxford, all I can say to that is: you could have fooled me.
Roberto Mercatali
Oxford
